When you search in a library database, don't type your question, as you might in Google, TRANSFORM into a search statement: divide your question into distinct concepts.
For example:
How to workers feel about their jobs?
Becomes:
-or-
What value or meaning do workers find in their jobs?
Becomes:
1. Identify different concepts. Highlight the nouns.
What value or meaning do workers find in their jobs?
2. Think of synonyms for these concepts.
| Workers | Jobs | Meaning |
|
Employees |
Work | Value |
| Laborers | Career | Attitudes |
| Staff | Occupation | Motivation |
| Personnel | Employment | Satisfaction |
3. Use the different search boxes in the advanced search of a library database to start a search, one for each concept. Use the operator OR to connect synonyms or similar concepts.
